The Disneyland Resort and four labor unions have approved a three-year deal that would raise the hourly minimum wage for 9,700 employees to $15 by January 2019, and includes a 3% raise for employees that earn a wage at or above that threshold.

ByJennifer Muir Beuthin |November 9, 2016

During this time of stark political polarization, Orange County Employees Association General Manager Jennifer Muir Beauthin writes that it’s important this Veterans Day to all rally together around one point: When men and women risk their lives defending our freedoms, we need to be there for them when they return home.

After being upbraided on air by two conservative radio hosts, Orange County supervisorial candidates Andrew Do and Michele Martinez are taking action aimed at alleviating the homeless crisis at the county Civic Center.

BySenator Connie M. Leyva |September 5, 2016

State Sen. Connie M. Leyva reminds us that the labor movement has helped ensure workers and their families have a better quality of life for future generations. She argues that unions are needed now more than ever before.

Simmering tensions between Santa Ana council members and the new leadership of the city’s police union came to a head Tuesday, with council members leveling a heated response to allegations from the police union’s president.

UNITE-HERE, which represents Anaheim Resort district employees, is collecting signatures to put two luxury hotel development deals before voters in November, after failed attempts to engage the projects’ developer on a labor deal.

Irvine resident Jodi Lieberman, a first-year college student at UCLA writes about the difficulties of trying to restore her right to drive and how reaching out to Senator Moorlach's office made the difference in her case.

After having his department largely defunded last year because of an active watchdog approach, it now seems that deceased Orange County Auditor Controller Eric Woolery was transitioning his life to Kansas. Orange County taxpayers had a right to know that Woolery was super-commuting to his local office from out of state and might be transitioning to a new life. Access to an official public calendar would have allowed for that kind of accountability, something that County of Orange officials keep fighting.